Honey bees are highly social creatures that live in large family groups. Each group or colony is well-organized, with three types of adult bees: a queen, worker bees, and drones. Worker bees are all ...

Bees rely on sunlight and polarized light to navigate, making nighttime flight dangerous and often impossible for honey bees.

Weidkamp Road near Lynden is closed for an estimated 24 to 48 hours after a commercial truck carrying 70,000 pounds of honey bee hives overturned. The hives came off the truck, freeing an estimated 14 ...

Mice love to take shelter inside beehives. It’s a perfect spot for a mouse; warm and cozy with plenty of honey to eat. However, bees aren’t too keen on invaders, and they have ways of dealing with ...

Marvin Jordana laid a hand on the beehive in his Eagle Rock backyard and said a silent prayer. After a few moments, he spoke: “I ask for their permission to enter the hive, because this is their body.

Honey bees, packed together in their hive, are vulnerable to infection from viruses. Fred Zwicky Honey bees are known for running a tight ship. Their hexagonal honeycombs make the most mathematically ...

Individually coded honey bee workers and queen interact inside monitored colony. Credit: Adam G. Dolezal The coronavirus epidemic has certainly caused many humans to change behavior, like increasing ...